Help me create a huge favicon collection
April 9th, 2008I really like favicons. So, I created a Firefox 3 add-on that sends all my favicons to a web service. Then, the stars aligned, and google released app engine. Now we’re enabled to collect all the favicons in the world. But I cannot do it alone, I need your help.
You can see the progress here. If you want to add favicons that you encounter (in Firefox 3), please see this page.
The add-on is alpha alpha alpha, so please let me know if you run into any issues.
April 10th, 2008 at 5:03 am
Just in case it’s not on your features-to-be-added later list you may wish to consider having the icon point to the URL from whence it was grabbed. And you are definitely going to need a feature to remove duplicates. Unless you want duplicates, of course. :-)
April 12th, 2008 at 8:37 am
Could you not glue the icons together as bigger images to make downloading faster?
April 13th, 2008 at 12:25 pm
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April 15th, 2008 at 12:46 am
If you want to jumpstart things, you could have your extension grab icons from the browser’s favicon service. I’m not sure if there’s an API to list all the entries directly, but you could pull it from places.sqlite with a DB query. A quick check shows I’ve got ~2400 icons stored in my profile.
April 15th, 2008 at 6:49 am
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